What do you want to achieve with your Neighbourhood Plan?
- What are the key issues for your community and what are your aims and objectives
- How can policies in your Neighbourhood Plan help you to address local issues and achieve your ambitions?
Think about:
- how you want your places to evolve over time
- what growth does your community need
- what should change (and what should be protected) to make your area a better place to live?
Meeting statutory requirements
It’s important to remember that all Neighbourhood Plan policies must:
- Have regard to national policy
- Contribute to the achievement of sustainable development
- Conform with strategic policies in the Cornwall Local Plan. This may include the following, where relevant:
- Be compatible with Environmental legislation (Strategic Environment Assessment)
You can learn about each of the stages and activities required to produce a neighbourhood plan in the document below:
Producing a neighbourhood plan can be a complex and long process. To keep track of targets and work completed you can use the Locality project planner tool. This will help you to see how each phase fits into the statutory stages of neighbourhood planning. We have inserted some extra comments so that you can see how this is supported by Cornwall Council.
Making a Neighbourhood Plan is a significant undertaking. It will require a lot of time and effort, usually by volunteers to successfully deliver one. In our experience, they take at least 2 years to prepare. However, they can take much longer (in Cornwall it’s an average of around 5 years from designation to completion). The policies in the plan gather weight as the plan moves through the process. Once the plan has been successfully examined and supported at referendum, it will form part of the Local Development Plan. This will then be used alongside National and Cornwall planning policies to make decisions on planning applications in the Neighbourhood Area.
Email us at neigbourhoodplanning@cornwall.gov.uk to discuss your neighbourhood plan.
Support we offer to Neighbourhood Planning Groups
We have a wealth of knowledge and experience in neighbourhood planning and can offer you free support.
Set up a Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group
It is important that your Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group sets out how it will interact and report back to the Qualifying Body.
You must apply to us to designate your neighbourhood plan area.
You may be able to apply for future funding for your neighbourhood plan.
Prepare your Neighbourhood Plan
How to produce a neighbourhood plan. Engagement, data and evidence, vision and objectives and drafting planning policies.
Submit your Neighbourhood Plan
How to carry out your Regulation 14 Pre-submission consultation and publicity. Documents you will need to prepare for your Regulation 15 Submission with templates to help you to do this.
Delivering and monitoring the plan
This stage provides guidance on what happens once the plan has been adopted. You will find out how to monitor the success of the plan and review the policies over time.
Neighbourhood Plan (NDP) guide notes and templates
The guidance in this section gives advice on HOW to produce an NDP. It has useful templates which will help you with some of the key documents that you will need to produce to support your Neighbourhood Plan.
